William Elliott Whitmore - Don't Pray On Me (Bad Religion)

William Elliott Whitmore playing "Don't Pray On Me" @ de Amstelkerk in Amsterdam September 17th 2009.

His first headlining (I believe) show in the Netherlands could not have been held at a better venue. The acoustics in this renovated little church are truly amazing. Every little sound sounded good in this place.

I love this man's music so much...I damn nearly filmed the whole show! I'm kinda bummed my camera bailed on me a couple of times and I didn't get ALL of it, "Does Me No Good" in particular, but he played that one too.

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Music

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• William
• Elliott
• Whitmore
• Don't
• Prey
• Pray
• On
• Me
• Bad
• Religion
• Amstelkerk
• Paradiso
• Amsterdam

[TheSidewalkCipher]

beautiful cover of one of my favorite Bad Religion songs, this guy may have just made a new fan!

But why does he hold his guitar in such a strange fashion?

[sshitzu]

@TheSidewalkCipher

The man's a banjo player...so I guess it's what comes natural to him.

[rastablues1]

@Itseasyifyoutry What the fuck does that have to do with the way this guy is holding his guitar? Ever held a banjo? IYou remind me of every cookie-cutter, unimaginative, boring music teacher I've ever heard....

[alexanderwelsh]

снимай ровно сука

[fasterinfall]

@monkeyboltz nope. when he originally did this cover he mistakenly left out that verse and i think the interview i read was because he had it on cassette and the verse was left out of the liner notes. he re-recorded his cover for the BR tribute record with the full song.

[monkeyboltz]

That's a decent cover. One of my favorite songs ever. But he left out the real meaty part. Must have been a pro-life crowd.

[ilikenofx22]

do it on banjo dude, that's your thing, right?

[electrickpunk]

Fantasmic. everybody come to iowa city and stomp yer feet on new years eve with Will!!!

[RoryHarman]

@Itseasyifyoutry

I've seen this guy play live.

He drinks an astonishing amount during his sets.

I mean, seriously, enough that I think he'd probably have trouble standing and playing.

[akaradeperro]

puagh¡!!!

[macabros333]

he takes an awful lot of time to tune his guit... but the cover is cool

[Itseasyifyoutry]

@TheSidewalkCipher People who play guitar at their side when sitting down (eg. kurt cobain) are not holding it correctly, because when you stand up it changes position and moves in front of you. As a result you have to readjust your wrist position forcing you to learn two significantly different techniques for playing guitar. In other words if you usually practice while sitting down it's good to make a habit of keeping it in front of you so your technique will transfer easily to standing up.